Education: Becomings & Perishings

As the horse & buggy creaked along, the driver turned to the man in the
odd little cape and asked: "You a traveling salesman?" The stranger
nodded agreeably, but said nothing. The driver tried again: "What do
you sell?" This time his passenger smiled. "Wit and wisdom" he said.
After a shocked silence, the driver protested: "I've never seen a
traveling salesman yet who wouldn't show me his wares."

But Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead's wares were not
for such men as the driver. For more than six decades he had displayed
them to...